Although silicon is actually the industry common semiconductor in the majority of electrical products, including the photovoltaic cells that sun panels use to convert sunlight into energy, it is not really the most effective component readily available. For example, the semiconductor gallium arsenide and related compound semiconductors offer nearly two times the performance as silicon [...]

Germany’s Bid For Solar Excellence Scuppered by Upstart Geothermal? By Judy Collins In 1991, a quiet but effective revolution began in Germany. It consisted of 5 paragraphs and didn’t even provide any future promises (or funding), but it gave something to the average citizen that he didn’t have before…commercial access to the grid. The law [...]